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The Go-to Feminist for all things relevantWed, 16 Nov 2016 23:15:35 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Comment on The Intellectualization of foolishness: An open letter to Toure by a femalehttp://thefeministgriote.com/the-intellectualization-of-foolishness-an-open-letter-to-toure/comment-page-1/#comment-20304
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 23:15:35 +0000http://thefeministgriote.com/?p=1488#comment-20304listen as someone thats not male,, i think y’all feminists need to chill its a damn song what is one song gonna do like ur not going to die it’s okay gee whiz plus abel had some fye bars in this ,, live for once ya darn prudes
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Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:36:55 +0000http://thefeministgriote.com/?p=2106#comment-20102Despite her statements, Jenji Kohan has, in fact, thrived off of the same old Hollywood stereotypes that she attempts to distinguish herself from.

Weeds offered nothing positive about gay males. It went season to season with nothing but anti-gay jokes, mocking. There was one likable gay character that was still cliche and only on the show briefly.

Some mocking is fine, but it permeated through all of the seasons. A smart young lesbian exists, but a gay DEA couple is unceremoniously killed off individually. Jokes are made about a pastor who had Israeli porn.

And as much as Fundamentalists could stand a lot of mockery, Weeds went over-board with Christian stereotypes, mocking Jesus. I am a gay male, it bugged me. My sister is lesbian, it bugged her. It was cliche. If Judaism or Islam were mocked so heavily on a TV show it would either not make it to air, or it would be yanked off. How is that liberal and there are, after all, many liberal mainline churches who supported the gay rights movement, the rights of women, the civil rights movement. Not in Kenjji’s universe.

She even uses the mentally ill with her blatant sterotypes and this is all repetitive through every single season. (Well I stopped mid-season 7).

Gay men in “Sex in the City” were just more stereotypes as if all gay men loved women’s clothes and fashion designers.

She most certainly uses blacks as comedic relief. Her main characters are not that funny.

But Jewish humor is always self-deprecating and quaint. It’s not mean-spirited.

Hmmm..so Lesbians are ok, but her gay male stereotyping is fine. Jews are cool (I am sure most are) but she stereotypes Christians as fundamentalists. It’s easy to mock Jesus (In Weeds, Andy–imitating a pastor since using one’s RV) does a hatchet-job to “Turn the other cheek”. That killed me since Jesus was actually was referring to a Hebrew rabbinical tenet, simply addressing the poor and uneducated.
Maybe many Christians don’t know that but I am guessing the writers didn’t either, making them as ignorant as those they are mocking.

I am tired of Hollywood CREATING the stereotypes with one hand, particularly on Television and then Hollywood “tearing down stereotypes” by the now, almost mandatory practice of leading straight male actors taking at least one gay role. They tear down what they created, and TV has done a lot to create black stereotypes, hispanic stereotypes, gay stereotypes. This talk of diversity seems hypocritical. The diversity is just a diversity of some of the same old stereotypes.

Stupid, crazy fundamentalist Christians (you can find stupid fanatical crazy people in every religion and amid those of no religion).

But notice…she does not mock her own demographic. No. Her shows are fluff, they offer nothing of substance.

But the media fusses and a lot of people watch and walk around with the same stupid stereotypes that are obvious to provide comedy.

This woman speaks for the LGBT community? This woman is helping AA female characters?

The media can spin anything but her stereotypes, particularly of gay men and African Americans are just exploitation of humor. It’s also easy to mock Jesus on TV, even though not all Christians are uneducated, psycho idiots.I believe many have sensibilities far above the creators of this show. Why not show positive characters that are funny or bad just because of the personality of the character. Black equals black comedy. Gay men equals gay stereotype comedy.

That’s not labeling? L/G/B/T should sometimes be made fun of. Gay rights activists who had it much harder just a few decades back (and further) fought against labels and we end up with alphabetic labels.
Worse, she labels the characters.

Liberal, moderate, conservative–a cliche stereotype is a cliche stereotype and this tv creator is replete with them despite “liberal” media (studio pushed praise) and a gullible audience just totally not noticing points as this article was very astute in nailing. Great article.

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Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:28:01 +0000http://thefeministgriote.com/?p=1363#comment-18005I stumbled upon this post while listening to Like Water For Chocolate because I wanted to confirm that MC Lyte was Common’s foil on “A Film Called Pimp”. Forgive me for the comment being a few years too late, but I believe this discussion lacks a degree of nuance.

First, MC Lyte has been around longer than Common. I believe she is considered the first female MC to release a solo LP back in 1988. She is also older than Common, and while a guest spot on a Common record is prestigious, MC Lyte certainly wasn’t hanging on to Common’s coattails in 2000.

If you listen to Lyte’s verses after Common’s, it would be clear that they are undermining the pimps and hos trope. Lyte turns the violence and misogyny back toward Common’s character, claiming she is going to pimp his ‘skinny punk ass’ for six bills a day. She takes the upper hand and bulldozes their back and forth, while he backpedals into a more metaphorical, pimp as cosmic preacher bullshit position.

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